Reactivating or building new Iowa-class battleships for the US Navy is an impractical notion. These World War II-era giants, ...

A look back in history reveals how U.S. battleships played a key role in accommodating the long-range weapon system known as ...

Summary and Key Points: The Iowa-class battleships, the last of their kind, symbolize the end of the battleship era. Commissioned during World War II, these steel giants boasted impressive ...

Summary: The Iowa ... battleships, which were the last of their kind produced by the United States, were envisioned to dominate naval battles. However, their actual combat roles during World War ...

But what if some of those ships could include World War II-era Iowa-class battleships? It's not impossible. USS Iowa launching Tomahawk cruise missile. Each refurbished Iowa-class ship had 32 ...

From World War II until the 1991 Persian Gulf War, support for the Marines was provided mostly by the Iowa-class battleships' 16-inch guns, which can hurl a 2,000-pound projectile 24 nautical miles.

World War II marked a turning point ... cruisers, and battleships in this list. Some of the more heavily-armed ships in WWII were the Iowa-class battleships – the last battleships built ...

When the United States and its allies entered World War II, the Iowa-class battleship quickly proved its worth on the world's oceans. Typically, battleships would accompany Essex-class aircraft ...

The four Iowa-class battleships have been reactivated three times since the end of World War II. It’s possible to bring the ships back to fighting condition, but it would take a real emergency.

The Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey underwent ... taken out of action by VD daily during World War I. During World War II, the Army hyped venereal disease as “the enemy in your pants ...